By Philip Reeve
London is hunting
The nice Traction urban lumbers after a small city, desirous to strip its prey of all resources and circulation on. assets at the nice searching floor that when used to be Europe are so restricted that cellular towns needs to devour each other to outlive, a tradition referred to as Municipal Darwinism.
Tom, an apprentice within the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a homicide try out via the mysterious Hester Shaw -- simply to discover himself thrown from the town and stranded with Hester within the Out kingdom. As they fight to stick with the tracks of the town, the sinister plans of London's leaders start to spread ...
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She shrieked. "No, you are not! " Tom controlled to heave himself to his knees. "You're my buddy! " he shouted. "I hate you! I hate you! " Hester used to be yelling "Well, I care approximately you, no matter if you're keen on it or now not! " Tom screamed. "Do you think that you are the merely individual who is misplaced their ma and pa? i believe simply as indignant and lonely as you, yet you do not see me going round wish ing to kill humans and attempting to get myself changed into a Stalker! you are only a impolite, self-pitying -" however the remainder of what he have been making plans to inform her died away in an astonished sob, simply because all of sudden he may see town under him and Airhaven and the impending riders as basically as though it have been the center of the day. He observed the celebrities fade; he observed Hester's face freeze in mid-shout with spittle trailing from the corners of her mouth; he observed his personal wavering shadow dancing at the blood-soaked grass. Above the crags, the evening sky was once filling with an unearthly gentle, as though a brand new solar had risen from the Out-Country, someplace distant in the direction of the north. 189 23 MEDUSA Katherine watched, transfixed, because the dome of St Paul's break up alongside black seams and the sections folded outwards like petals. inside of, whatever used to be emerging slowly up a imperative tower and starting because it rose, an orchid of chilly, white steel. The grumble of tremendous hydraulics echoed around the sq. and shivered in the course of the textile of the Engineerium. "MEDUSA! " whispered Bevis Pod, status in the back of her within the open doorway. "They have not rather been repairing the cathedral in any respect! they have outfitted MEDUSA inside of St Paul's! " a hundred ninety "Guildspersons? " They became. An Engineer was once status at the back of them. "What are you doing? " he snapped. "This gantry is off-limits to every person yet L department -" He stopped, observing Katherine, and she or he observed that Bevis was once staring too, his darkish eyes vast and horrified. For a second she could not think what was once unsuitable with him. Then she understood. The rain! She had forgotten in regards to the Guild-mark he had painted so rigorously among her eyebrows, and now it was once trickling down her face in skinny crimson rills. "What in Quirke's identify? " the Engineer gasped. "Kate, run! " shouted Bevis, pushing the Engineer apart, and Katherine ran, and heard the man's indignant shout at the back of her as he fell. Then Bevis used to be together with her, grabbing her by way of the hand, darting left and correct down empty corridors until eventually a stairway opened forward. Down one flight after which one other, and in the back of them they heard extra shouts and the unexpected jarring peal of an alarm bell. Then they have been on the backside, in a small foyer, someplace on the rear of the Engineerium. there have been sizeable glass doorways establishing directly to best Tier, and Guildsmen status shield. "There's an interloper! " panted Bevis, pointing again the best way that they had come. "On the 3rd ground! i feel he is armed! " The Guildsmen have been already startled by means of the surprising ringing of the alarm bell. They exchanged surprised glances, then one all started up the steps, dragging a gas-pistol from his belt. Bevis and Katherine seized their probability and moved quickly on. "My colleague's been hurt," defined Bevis, pointing at Katherine's redstreaked face.